Fushigi Yugi

Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:28 am

Is it just lonely little me who likes Fushigi Yugi, or are there some other people too? =P

Anyway, I think it's fantastic ^_^ It's airing here in HK and I'm on episode 20 or 30 something.

Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:40 pm

I'll always hold a soft spot for Fushigi Yuugi. To make a long story short, watching that series was pretty much the excuse Scintilla and I would use to justify him coming over weekend after weekend. We were dating by the time we finished it.

It's also one of the first anime series I ever watched from start to finish.

Good stuff...and if you like bishounen it's great stuff.

Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:53 pm

I remember when I first saw that series and was struggling to get fansubs (back before it was liscenses). I stayed up late one night with my friend watching like 20 episodes.

Although I hate Miaka and Tamahome, I do love the other characters, especially Tasuki, Chichiri and Nuriko. I haven't seen OVA 3 yet, has anyone here?

Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:34 pm

bex wrote:Although I hate Miaka and Tamahome, I do love the other characters, especially Tasuki, Chichiri and Nuriko.

*chuckles* Me too.

Along with those three, I also like Hotohori and Amiboshi. Nice boy musical-types fall prey to my inner fangirl (darn monster won't stay in her cage...Back! Stay back you!).

(Though in the grand scheme of things, I'm more in the "dislike Yui" camp then the "dislike Miaka")

Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:42 pm

Fushigi Yuugi daaaisuki!

I have all of it on dvd and some of the original manga (including Genbu Kaiden http://195.230.175.217/~japan/Genbu/Index_e.htm) in Japanese. I remember buying it on VHS the day it was released in the US. It seemed to always take forever for the next volume to come out. The third volume of the OAV is alright. The main reason I like it is because it continues the story.

Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:24 am

I really like Fushigi Yuugi. Couldn't stand Miaka, and Yui ticked me off most of the series as well (although I liked her in the OVAs), but I still liked the story very well. My favorite characters were Nuriko, Amiboshi/Suboshi (it's been a long time, I can't remember which is which), and Tetsuya and Miaka's brother. Those two made the show. ^_-

FY was one of my earliest fully-watched anime series. I used to only watch magical girls series, mainly because I wasn't sure what else I would like. While I tend to watch other anime now, series like FY, Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, and of course Utena, still reside in my list of favorite anime series.

BTW, anyone else a fan of the hilarious omake shown in the first OAV? The trip to the the hot springs? I need to rewatch those sometime, they crack me up!

Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:52 pm

I thought I was all alone in liking fushigi yuugi. I really like it I don't know how many volumes there are though so i don't now how close I am to being done with the series. Right now I am working on volume 7. Could someone tell me how many books there are?

Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:46 pm

goddess_Hekate wrote:I thought I was all alone in liking fushigi yuugi. I really like it I don't know how many volumes there are though so i don't now how close I am to being done with the series. Right now I am working on volume 7. Could someone tell me how many books there are?

Sorry I didn't notice this earlier ^_^;; There are 18 volumes of Fushigi Yuugi and 3+ volumes of Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden. I don't know what volume they're at in english as I only have the japanese. Somebody (I'm assuming VIZ) is releasing Genbu Kaiden in June, too! =) There area also several novels with back stories about the characters (including Eikouden) which were not written by Watase Yuu. They're kinda like offical fafnfics, heh heh. I don't know off the top of my head how many there are, but they're only in Japanese